Last year, a YouTube video showed off a physical version of the classic video game Pong. Players maneuvered a pair of paddles back and forth on each side of the table, while motors and magnets allowed the puck to bounce between each side like a souped up version of air hockey. The video garnered enough […]
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Kickstarter for mechanical Atari Pong game table enters its final days
Tabletop versions of Atari Pong used to be the rage in the 1970s. And now a team at Calinfer in Uruguay is reproducing what was once an electronic game as a real-life mechanical game that is akin to an air hockey table. The Atari Table Pong Project is now in its final days of its […]
Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Self-cleaning gym bags and coffee table Pong
At any given moment, there are approximately a zillion crowdfunding campaigns on the web. Take a stroll through Kickstarter or Indiegogo and you’ll find no shortage of weird, useless, and downright stupid projects out there — alongside some real gems. In this column, we cut through all the worthless wearables and Oculus Rift ripoffs to […]
Musical.ly launches another video-centric app in the form of Ping Pong
Musical.ly, the social platform for creating and sharing short videos beloved by teens, is releasing a new app to build upon its success. The Chinese startup (which, by its own account, boasts 100 million users on its flagship service) recently debuted a new video messaging offering for iOS entitled “Ping Pong.” There’s just one major problem: […]